My thoughts are to obtain another computer (used) of the latest vintage you can afford and install a later level of the OS on it. This way you will not damage your work system and you will be able to have instant access to the system you want to use.
On Monday, July 6, 2020 at 10:41:21 AM UTC+1, Route 49 Studio Brighton wrote: > > Hi all. I'm running a late 2012 imac 16gb Ram 1TB SSD. I've done quite a > bit of reading around this online and think I have a plan to achieve what I > need to but was hoping to run it past some people as I'm a bit paranoid > about making big changes on my system as I have a few jobs on the go and it > would be a big pain if I had to spend ages setting everything up again if I > messed it up! I run a small recording studio and have been using Logic 9 up > until now because I'm used to it and I haven't needed to change, but I do > need to bite the bullet and update now. I'd like to partition my drive so I > can keep running my current Logic 9 system on El Capitan on one partition > that doesn't connect to the web and on the other partition update to the > latest OS and use Logic X and everything else. I've got about 500gb on my > drive at present. My plan is to: > > Backup all my important files on an hdd, they're already synced on Google > Drive set to never remove both copies. Create a disk image in disk utility > as extra insurance. Then partition the drive. > > On the empty side I would then update to the new OS. > > Will this work? > > If I create a disk image is that bootable from? I'm keen to avoid having > to reinstall a legacy OS as I've heard this is a bit of a faff and I'd like > to keep my old setup runniong on El Capitan as I have ongoing projects and > am worried about plugin conflicts etc. if I try and run Logic 9 on the > latest OS. > > Also when I partition the drive will it automatically place all the data > on one side? Presumably they will both be my current OS meaning I can then > update one partition while the other stays the same? Sorry for the long > post. Many thanks in advance for any help. Ben > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Sussex Mac User Group" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/smug/1f20af84-e4a4-4432-a1cf-b968547ff473o%40googlegroups.com.
